Yearly Archives: 2020

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Sixty press freedom groups and civil society organisations, journalism institutions, filmmakers, and other supporters have formed a coalition in support of...

By RNZ News Opposition National list MP Dr Jian Yang has announced his retirement from New Zealand politics and says he will not stand in...

SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie, who sailed on the original Rainbow Warrior to Rongelap atoll and is author of the book Eyes of Fire. Thirty...

COMMENT: By Benny Wenda, chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua For over 50 years, Indonesia has been promising West Papua "autonomy". Each...

By Kalino Latu in Auckland The first repatriation flight to return stranded Tongans from Fiji which was supposed to start today as announced by the...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...

By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...

By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...

COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia's Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus. Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Thirty five years ago this week in another life Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Lokataru Legal and Human Rights Foundation says there are two problems with the Indonesian police which have developed during the...

By RNZ Pacific A sit-in has been held outside the French High Commission in French Polynesia to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the first nuclear...

COMMENTARY: By Philip Cass of Kaniva Tonga Where does the responsibility of Tonga's Police Commissioner lie? Is it to the Police Minister and Cabinet? To the...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, Vice-President Leni Robredo has pushed for safeguards so that the controversial...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby Key findings from the 2016 to 2018 Papua New Guinea Demographic and Health Survey reveals that 56 percent of...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer The New Zealand Herald recently published a column which criticises its own record on race. Teuila Fuatai explains why...

By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...

The National editorial Hundreds walked the Sir John Guise drive on Thursday calling for justice for the brutal death of 19-year-old mother-of-two – Jenelyn Kennedy...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk About 200 people protested in Auckland as demonstrations took place in at least nine New Zealand cities and towns today against...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby A passionate plea by men, women and children has echoed around the Papua New Guinean capital of Port Moresby...